Rookie of the Year

A freak little league accident where kid slips on a ball and breaks his arm where the tendons make the arm tight and gives him a major league pitching arm. him and his friends go to Wrigley field and watch the bad cubs play where a home run is hit up to them in the bleachers he throws the ball back all the way to home plate and the cubs look for him and sign him to a contract where the manager keeps mispronucing his name and a silly goofy pitching coach and a washed up pitcher who shows him the ropes he gets comfortable and his mom never is comfortable with the whole situation and his stepfather gets jealous of the pitcher who is helping the kid and tries to conspire to get money from the kid and the owner cooks up a plan to trade him to New York where his mom fires him and breaks up with him. The end the Kid pitches the cubs into the playoffs and and the old pitcher Chet Steadman gets involved with his mom.
Director: Daniel Stern
Writer: Sam Harper
Release Date: July 7th 1993
Genre: Comedy Family Sport Fantasy

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Won	ASCAP Award	Top Box Office Films Bill Conti
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1994	Nominated	Saturn Award	Best Fantasy Film

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

	Thomas Ian Nicholas	...	Henry Rowengartner
	Gary Busey	...	Chet 'Rocket' Steadman
	Albert Hall	...	Sal Martinella
	Amy Morton	...	Mary Rowengartner
	Dan Hedaya	...	Larry 'Fish' Fisher
	Bruce Altman	...	Jack Bradfield
	Eddie Bracken	...	Bob Carson
	Robert Hy Gorman	...	Clark (as Robert Gorman)
	Patrick LaBrecque	...	George
	Daniel Stern	...	Phil Brickma
	Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine	...	Becky
	Kristie Davis	...	Tiffany
	Tyler Ann Carroll	...	Edith
	Tom Milanovich	...	Heddo
	Ross Lehman	...	Dr. Kersten